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June 11, 2013
"Somehow there remains on the Left the belief"
that the process of expanding government power can continue indefinitely -- for good causes like regulating 16 ounce softdrinks and ensuring that none but bureaucrats can possess firearms, to be sure -- without ever getting to the point where it can seize telephone records, wiretap news agencies or use the IRS to crackdown on political opponents. It can't. Power corrupts. And what is more it usurps. Belmont Club » Toward a More Perfect TyrannyPosted by gerardvanderleun at June 11, 2013 11:45 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Because there are no limits to progressivism. There is only "progress" not a goal. Once you achieve the latest benchmark, its time to progress more. The principle isn't to reach some point of idealized reality, but instead to just progress more. Nothing, nothing is too far to the progressive, just too soon.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 12, 2013 8:26 AM